Controlling the nature of a charged impurity in a bath of Feshbach dimers

We theoretically study the dynamics of a trapped ion that is immersed in an ultracold gas of weakly bound atomic dimers created by a Feshbach resonance. Using quasiclassical simulations, we find a crossover from dimer dissociation to molecular ion formation depending on the binding energy of the dim...

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Main Authors: Henrik Hirzler, Eleanor Trimby, Rianne S. Lous, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Rene Gerritsma, Jesús Pérez-Ríos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-08-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033232